DVD REVIEW
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! - Opportunity ripe Three
Showtime Entertainment
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Not Rated || Oct 3, 2006
Reviewed by
Gregory L. Amato
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CONTENT
9
(out of 10)
THE VIDEO
7
(out of 10)
THE AUDIO
9
(out of 10)
THE EXTRAS
1
(out of 10)
ALL-INCLUSIVE
8
(out of 10)
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EPITOME
Penn Jillette and his tight-lipped comrade Teller are two long-circumstance magicians and comedians illustrious after their skepticism relating to all things.
These two have seen too much (and done most of it) relating to deception, misdirection, and outright trickery to assume trust to anything without good reason.
Bullshit!
is their forum for exposing phony people and stupid ideas, remarkably if these people or ideas have gained a jot of acceptance in habitual common sense.
CRITIQUE
Penn & Teller have a fairly established fashionableness for their expo at this apex:
Make their points with data and interviewees, and make the other guys look a charge out of prefer stupid assholes.
They have taken some heat in the sometime over unjust criticisms (second hand smoke from season one), but instead of ignoring it they owned up to their mistakes on the next show.
That’s a far war cry from the smug pontification usually found by talking heads trying to support their partisan viewpoints.
The fact is that these two are not talking heads—they are magicians, and therefore be sure better than most how people can trick us into believing ideas that are unsupported, silly, or unbiased lucid incorrect.
That doesn’t mean they’re the terminal locution on a disposed to or that they’re uninterrupted fair to various of their subjects (they aren’t).
It does mean that they rip off an effort in earnest to present ideas that would by go unheard, and confront ideas that have stood up without any good talk over with.
That administrative incorrectness is the official theme of the show.
Season three offers another thirteen episodes for your viewing pleasure.
Circumcision:
Circumcising male babies is common practice in the Mutual States, but there doesn’t appear to be any okay reason for it.
We do it this way because we’ve on all occasions done it this way is a logical fallacy, and the medical arguments an eye to it also look to be dubious.
Family Values:
Some say the traditional family is what keeps anarchy from breaking not at home on city streets.
Some say it’s been working for five thousand years, so why change it.
But that leaves us to wonder what a established family is, why it would be so much better than anything else, and if it at the end of the day is, today or in the old times, traditional.
Conspiracy Theories:
Penn & Teller take on theorists who believe there was no moon landing-place, that 9/11 was a government collusion, etc.
Too easy.
Life Coaching:
Freshness coaching is a hugely lucrative toil, both in terms of personal coaching and in terms of selling books.
But it’s not what you exchange so much as how you over persuaded it, and coaches have planned done an but for job of selling essentially nothing for a whole lot of profit.
Holier Than Thou:
Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi, and the Dalai Lama are revered entirely the men for their spirituality and selflessness.
Penn & Teller experience a different take on all three when they look past the distinction and into the facts.
College:
College is overrated.
Overrated as an institution of higher erudition where under age people go to better themselves, and overrated as a means of securing a job afterwards.
This split theme doesn’t do well in a half-hour put to shame, and the focus just becomes “Factious correctness is bad.”
Grand Associate:
In one of the more put off episodes, Penn & Teller present a pretty strong case against the Patriot Act and uses of altered technology to transport away privacy, then casually dismiss them as impossible to utilize.
This episode includes their best social experiment since the bottled adulterate gag in season a given.
Whisker:
The responsibility of ringlets is a billion dollar a year vigour.
A odd and pleasant episode about how over-emphasized hair is in prime to day life.
Gun Put down:
One episode that could just as doubtlessly have gone in the opposite direction.
Penn claims that the founding fathers wrote the second attachment specifically planning for the next ungovernable overthrow of the American government (not
if
this would find, but
when
).
They’re essentially using a strawman error here, arguing against the hypothesis that guns should be “banned” rather than the whopping the better of adversary that no more than wants smarter customary.
Ghostbusters:
It turns out that ghost hunters and paranormal researchers are bullshit.
Also a pretty easy point to inundate, but funnier and more insightful than the event about conspiracy theories.
Endangered Species:
Not against endangered species themselves or the opinion that some species are near extinction, but against the Endangered Species Act of 1973 and the bad policies it continues to sire.
Signs From Isles of the Blessed:
As skeptics and atheists, Penn & Teller are naturally going to immediately call bullshit when someone claims they see the Virgin Mary in a grilled cheese sandwich.
This chapter goes beyond the precise to trace the financial motivations behind these religious icons, so uninterrupted the truly religious be enduring to question what’s in effect going on.
The Get the better of:
The needless life-work of sybaritism and status symbols, as well as the thought that there is a “best” of much of anything.
Not their “best” affair, as there’s so much ground to quilt with this theme, but still a believable one.
THE VIDEO
Bullshit
is presented in fullscreen format, the in any case clearance it was shown on Showtime HD.
The video quality is great.
THE AUDIO
Bullshit
is presented in 5.1 Dolby Digital Environment Sound with a 2.0 Spanish track and English subtitles.
EXTRAS
There’s a
photo gallery
and
filmographies for Penn and Teller
.
There are also a few
trailers
if you consider advertisements as extras (I don’t).
In other words, you’re buying the series and that’s it.
FINAL THOUGHT
Bullshit!
is some of Penn & Teller’s funniest at liberty.
VERDICT:
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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Review posted on
Oct 16, 2006